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Recommendation by ICCAT Amending the Recommendation 19-04 Amending Recommendation 18-02 Establishing a Multi-Annual Management Plan for Bluefin Tuna in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean (Rec. 21-08).

Country/Territory
Document type
Regulation
Date
2021
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries
Keyword
Marine fisheries Fishery management and conservation Marine fishes Total allowable catch Fishing gear/fishing method Bycatch Transshipment Data collection/reporting Fish products Fishing authorization Fishing vessel Inspection Landing Monitoring Post-harvest treatment Protection of species Stock enhancement/repopulation Seasons Non-commercial fishing Authorization/permit
Abstract

This Recommendation of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas requires the Contracting Parties and Cooperating non-Contracting Parties, Entities or Fishing Entities (CPCs) whose vessels have been actively fishing for bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean to implement a management plan for bluefin tuna in that geographic area starting in 2019 with the goal of maintaining the biomass to the provided limits. Each CPC shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the fishing effort of its catching vessels and its traps are commensurate with the bluefin tuna fishing opportunities available to that CPC in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, including by establishing individual quotas for its catching vessels over 24 m as in the list referred in this Recommendation. The text further provides for the total allowable catches (TACs), inclusive of dead discards, for 2022. The Recommendation is designed in 6 Parts as follow: General provisions and objectives (I); Management measures (II); Technical measures (III); Control measures (IV); ICCAT Scheme of Joint International Inspection (V); and Final provisions (VI). Part four of the Recommendation on control measures refers to records of vessels, traps and farms; catches and transhipments; observer programmes; transfers of live fish; caging; harvesting; control activities in farms after caging; Vessel Monitoring System (VMS); enforcement and market measures. The Recommendation has 14 Annexes.

Full text
English
Website
www.iccat.int

References - Legislation

Implements

Decision on the registration of fishing vessels with fishing tools in the ICCAT Register (ICCAT Record of BFT Catching Vessels) in 2023.

Legislation | Croatia | 2023

Keyword: Allocation/quota, Fishing gear/fishing method, Fishing vessel, Marine fisheries, Marine fishes, Registration, Data collection/reporting, Seasons, Fishery management and conservation

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amends

Recommendation by ICCAT Amending the Recommendation 18-02 establishing a multi-annual management plan for bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean (19-04).

Legislation | 2019

Keyword: Marine fisheries, Fishery management and conservation, Mariculture, Marine fishes, Total allowable catch, Monitoring, Sustainable use, Migratory species, Fishing gear/fishing method, Bycatch, Mesh, Size, Seasons, Transshipment, Landing, Stock enhancement/repopulation, Foreign fishing, Enforcement/compliance

Source: FAO, FAOLEX